that there were things that we wanted to write ourselves… It was the last of that era for me, and my favourite album of all the ones I had made of the American Songbook,” she explains.
“It was right after that that Jim [Tomlinson], my husband and my producer, and I started to talk to Kazuo Ishiguro, the novelist.” Stacey and Jim enjoy listening to Radio 4’s
Desert Island Discs, and got a shock when Booker Prize-winning novelist Ishiguro was on the show one day.
“I’m a huge fan of Ishiguro,” says Stacey. “I didn’t know him, he didn’t know me, I was just an Ishiguro fan so I was tuned in listening. And lo and behold, he played one of my songs… I really just was falling off the floor, full of shock and excitement. “I just wanted to say ‘thank you, I’m so thrilled that you’re a fan of mine, because I’m a huge fan of yours’… so I managed to track him down through the BBC and I sent this message on to his manager. And he came back to me. And from there, a friendship grew. We started to meet for lunch and became friends.” They found they had a lot in common and eventually Ishiguro and Jim teamed up to write songs for Stacey, including The Ice Hotel, Breakfast on the Morning Tram, and the title track to the new album she’s working on at the moment, The Changing Lights, due to be released in the autumn. “It’s very exciting right now, because when I’m making a new song, and I know I’m about to launch it into the world, and get people excited about it, there’s really nothing more delicious,” says Stacey.
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